driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 0a0370c74181..583a341e016c 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ extern int device_for_each_child(struct device *, void *,
 extern struct device *device_find_child(struct device *, void *data,
                                         int (*match)(struct device *, void *));
 extern int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name);
+extern int device_move(struct device *dev, struct device *new_parent);
 
 /*
  * Manual binding of a device to driver. See drivers/base/bus.c